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• Twitter: @GuardianTT • Web: guardian.co.tt
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016
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HAVING A COMMUNITY SPORTING EVENT?
Contact Guardian Sports Desk
Call: 225-4465 (Ext: 2069, 2071, 2072, 2073)
or e-mail: valentino.singh@guardian.co.tt
or keith.clement@guardian.co.tt
T&T Football Association administrator Peter Rampersad, right, presents Eddie
Aleong with his Season Pass at the T&TFA Offices, Hasely Crawford Stadium,
Mucurapo on Friday, while T&T senior team coach Stephen Hart looks on.
SEASON PASS
Caledonia s Technical
Director Jamaal Shabazz
is excited about his club
returning to Morvant
this weekend for their
derby match up, against
Defence Force, in the
Digicel Pro League at the
Morvant Recreation
Ground, Park Street
from 3.45pm this after-
noon.
Two weeks after
pulling a crowd of over
2,000 football fans when
Morvant Caledonia Unit-
ed went down 4-2 to San
Juan Jabloteh, Shabazz is
still very upbeat.
"The results on the
field would come, it will
take time for the com-
munity to be integrated
into the team and when
the club and community
gel they will become the
12th man.
"After that we will see
what home advantage
really means and the real
concept of a club driven
by the cimmunity, added
Shabazz. "In football
terms who ain t dead
badly wounded ....so let
everyone talk they talk,
waxed Shabazz lyrically
sounding like a 3 canal
rapso entertainer.
Sunday s game which
kicks off at 3.45pm at the
Morvant Recreation
Ground can be considered
almost a Morvant Affair
since half of the Defence
Force team are players
who went to school or
resides in Morvant Laven-
tille. Defence Force coach
Marvin Gordon and ace
striker Devon Jorsling
both attended Malick
Senior Comprehensive
and grew up in Morvant.
"The community is
very familiar with the
"Army" players and they
are very familiar with this
territory, stated Shabazz.
"From a social stand-
point it helps when peo-
ple can see personnel
from the Defence Force
and Police Services not
just here doing foot
patrols but as rivals on
the football field or among
the crowd. This interac-
tion lends for better rela-
tions.
"Over the years tension
has built up with the
security services and
youths in the community,
events like these helps to
ease that tension, added
Shabazz. Shabazz said
that he has always been
critical of the political
leadership because of the
"neglect places like Mor-
vant and Laventille has
undergone over the years"
.
However the efforts to
upgrade the field so that
professional football can
come to Morvant in his
opinion is a plus. The man
who has the distinction
of coaching the national
teams of Guyana and
T&T feels that commu-
nity fields are the future
of professional football in
the country. "Credit to
the club owners and the
administration of the
T&T Pro League it is so
difficult to finance a pro
team but with facilities
within the communities
clubs in both the Pro and
Super League can achieve
self sufficiency.
"We have started train-
ing in Morvant again and
spectators are there wit-
nessing our sessions.
Everyone on my street in
Morvant wants a team
jersey so with the fans the
potential for merchandiz-
ing is huge.
New Morvant home
excites Shabazz
Jamaal Shabazz
T&T Soca Warriors
captain Kenwyne Jones
marked his return to
competitive play with a
goal to lead Centrel FC to
a come-from-behind 2-1
win over Police FC in the
Digicel T&T Pro League
at Ato Boldon Stadium,
Couva on Friday night.
The former Cardiff City
forward came off the
bench to score an 87th
minute equaliser before
winning a free-kick that
led to the winning strike
from Darren Mitchell to
hand as 10-man Central
FC a fifth win in six out-
ings. Two-time reigning
champions Central FC
now has 16 points, three
more than Couva rivals W
Connection which
crushed St Ann s Rangers
4-0 in the second match
at Couva. In the night s
opener, Police still without
a host of regular starters
due to injury including
captain Todd Ryan and
forwards Kareem Freitas
and Keion Wilson enjoyed
the better of the first-half
and was close to opening
the scoring twice in the
early moments, but failed
to do so. Five minutes
before the half-time, Police
chances of endinga four-
match winless streak was
given a boost when Cen-
tral FC s coach Kaydion
Gabriel was shown a sec-
ond yellow-card by referee
Keilon Bacchus to reduce
his team to ten men.
Within 13 minutes of the
restart Police midfielder
Kenaz Williams put the
Lawmen ahead when his
shot on goal took a slight
deflection off defender
Andre Ettienne and
whisked past Central goal-
keeper Jan-Michael
Williams and into the back
of the net. Police looked
to be headed for the upset
win, but substitute Jones
signalled his return to full
fitness ahead of T&T s
Concacaf Final Round
qualifiers against Costa
Rica (November 11) and
Honduras (November 15)
by drawing Central FC
level in the 86th minute
when he rose high in the
Police 18-yard area to head
past his national team-
mate, goalkeeper Adrian
Foncette, from a Jason
Marcano right side cross
following.
Then on the stroke of
90 minutes team captain
Darren Mitchell snatched
the 2-1 Central winner
with his fifth league goal
of the season from six
games. Jones was brought
down on top of the 18-
yard box, from which
Marcus Joseph unleashed
a low shot that clipped the
wall, causing further prob-
lems for Foncette who was
unable the stop the effort
and Mitchell steered in the
rebound from close it.
The second match on
the night failed to live up
to its hype as W Connec-
tion coasted to the lop-
sided win with Kurt Fred-
erick scoring twice in the
first-half before Jamal
Charles and Andre Tou-
ssaint completed the com-
fortable W Connection
win.
Jones' late strike denies Police
Central FC 2 (Kenwyne
Jones 88th, Darren Mitchell
90th) vs Police FC 1 (Kenaz
Williams 53rd)
W Connection 4 (Kurt
Frederick 35th, 45'+1, Jamal
Charles 75th, Andre
Toussaint 78th) vs St. Ann's
Rangers 0
RESULTS
Teams
PWDLFAPts
1.CentralFC651012516
2.W/Connect641118513
3.Jabloteh540110612
4.Rangers63129810
5. Ma Pau
5212667
6.PoliceFC612312125
7.M/CUnited512210115
8.ClubSando51138104
9.Defen/Force51 045123
10.P/FrtnCivic 5 0 1 4 3 18 1
STANDINGS
Morvant Caledonia Utd vs
Defence Force, Morvant Rec
Grd, 3.45pm
San Juan Jabloteh vs Pt
Fortin Civic, Ato Boldon
Stadium, 4pm
Club Sando vs Ma Pau Stars,
Ato Boldon Stadium, 6pm
MATCHES
Only once in all-time history has
T&T defeated Costa Rica in a
World Cup qualifying match at any
level.
It occurred on Monday April 8th,
2013 in La Chorrera, Panama when
this country s national under-17
men s team pulled off a 2-0 win
over the Central Americans in a
Concacaf Final Round encounter, a
result which helped push them
through to the quarter final stage.
Netherland-based winger Levi
Garcia played the match in its
entirety and recalls it vividly.
At 15 years, he was given the
starting role by coach Shawn Coop-
er for a match that T&T needed to
win after suffering a 2-0 loss to
Canada in the opening match.
Now Garcia is hoping to play his
part in spurring Stephen Hart s team
off to a winning start to the Con-
cacaf F Final Round of qualification
for the 2018 World Cup next Friday
at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
"Oh yes I remember that match.
It was such a joy because we found
out after that no national team had
ever beaten Costa Rica in a World
Cup qualifying match so it felt great
to be part of that team," Garcia told
said yesterday.
"I remember we knew Costa Rica
were a big team and we were a bit
down after losing the first game
against Canada. We played really
well but we just couldn t score and
then we fixed that in the second
game against them (Costa Rica).
That was one of my most pleasing
experiences as a national youth
player," he said.
Garcia, who tursn 19 on Novem-
ber 20th, knows that the respon-
sibilities and the expectations are
greater now. The stakes are much
higher this time around.
"Yes. It s a totally different stage.
For me it s very exciting. A year ago
I maybe didn t think that I would
be on this stage with the senior
team. It s a lot more pressure but
now pressure in the sense that it s
a big weight. I have grown and
matured over the past year since I
moved to Holland but I am still
learning every day and the maturing
process is continuing for me," Garcia
continued.
"I believe that this game is very
important and it will take a big
effort from every player from the
entire squad, not just for this game
but all of our matches in this round.
I am confident that we can do it
but we have to be smart and dis-
ciplined and of course ruthless when
we are out there. Nothing must go
past us easily and we have to make
use of our chances on goal in the
games," he said.
Garcia: We must be
disciplined, ruthless
Levi Garcia